Palimpsest — censorship, China economy and model-eval observatory is an MCP server with 6 tools an agent can call, among them get_newsroom, get_signal, gfw_reading. It answers at https://api.seiche.info/palimpsest/mcp over streamable HTTP, and it listed its tools to an anonymous client, so no sign-in was needed for that. Our probes reached it 10 of 10 times since 5 September 2026; the last check, on 18 October 2026, succeeded.
Rights-aware censorship, China-economic status, and tamper-evident AI evaluation tools.
Description as the publisher wrote it.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
get_newsroom | Read one evidence-first reporting surface without scraping a page or guessing a filename. Views: 'newsroom' for prioritized deterministic stories, 'wire' for normalized source dossiers, 'economy' for the currently restricted China economic Inputs: view, limit, status, priority |
get_signal | Read one named signal. Permitted signals return their bounded latest payload; China-economic signals in the denied lineage closure return explicit restricted/unavailable rights metadata and no values. Call list_signals first to discover val Inputs: name, max_rows |
gfw_reading | Read the Great Firewall's current state at both layers in one call: live network blocking measured inside China via OONI (website, messenger and circumvention-tool reachability) joined with model-layer censorship from the Generative Firewal |
list_signals | List every published signal Palimpsest exposes across its three applications: name, one-line description and source URL for each. Censorship and information control — OONI Great Firewall probes, Censored Planet, IODA outages, circumvention |
query_economic_observations | Inspect the native publication-rights status for the China-economic observation surface. The reviewed default-deny policy does not authorize redistribution of current CFETS/ChinaMoney values, so this tool returns policy digest, UTC clocks, Inputs: series_id, source_id, geography, sector, firm_size, ownership |
whats_happening | Judge whether anything is happening in Chinese censorship right now, across every signal at once: the board's own cross-signal verdict with the multiplicity paid for (false-discovery control) and coverage confounds flagged as measurement ar |
Every block below points at https://api.seiche.info/palimpsest/mcp. Pick your client and copy.
claude mcp add --transport http palimpsest-censorship-china-econ https://api.seiche.info/palimpsest/mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"palimpsest-censorship-china-econ": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://api.seiche.info/palimpsest/mcp"]
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"palimpsest-censorship-china-econ": {
"url": "https://api.seiche.info/palimpsest/mcp"
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"palimpsest-censorship-china-econ": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://api.seiche.info/palimpsest/mcp"
}
}
}{
"context_servers": {
"palimpsest-censorship-china-econ": {
"url": "https://api.seiche.info/palimpsest/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"palimpsest-censorship-china-econ": {
"serverUrl": "https://api.seiche.info/palimpsest/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"palimpsest-censorship-china-econ": {
"url": "https://api.seiche.info/palimpsest/mcp"
}
}
}name: Palimpsest — censorship, China economy and model-eval observatory
version: 0.0.1
schema: v1
mcpServers:
- name: Palimpsest — censorship, China economy and model-eval observatory
type: streamable-http
url: https://api.seiche.info/palimpsest/mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"palimpsest-censorship-china-econ": {
"httpUrl": "https://api.seiche.info/palimpsest/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"palimpsest-censorship-china-econ": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://api.seiche.info/palimpsest/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"palimpsest-censorship-china-econ": {
"url": "https://api.seiche.info/palimpsest/mcp"
}
}
}goose://extension?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.seiche.info%2Fpalimpsest%2Fmcp&type=streamable_http&id=palimpsest-censorship-china-econ&name=Palimpsest%20%E2%80%94%20censorship%2C%20China%20economy%20and%20model-eval%20observatory
It answered our last check on 18 October 2026 in 65 ms. Over 10 checks since 5 September 2026 it answered 10. Status here comes from Neuronto's own probes, not from the publisher.
6, as returned by the server's own tools/list on 31 August 2026: get_newsroom, get_signal, gfw_reading, list_signals, query_economic_observations, whats_happening.
It answered our last check on 18 October 2026 in 65 ms. Over 10 checks since 5 September 2026 it answered 10.
Put the server under mcpServers in ~/.cursor/mcp.json with the URL https://api.seiche.info/palimpsest/mcp. The exact JSON is above, with the same setup for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, Gemini CLI and the rest.
It listed its tools to an anonymous client, so reading the tool list needs no key. Individual tools can still ask for credentials in their own inputs.
Publisher: io.github.beepboop2025. Endpoint host: api.seiche.info. ARD identifier: urn:air:io.github.beepboop2025:mcp:palimpsest.
First indexed 31 August 2026. The tools are exactly what the server returned; nothing on this page
is inferred from its name. Ranking in Neuronto search is never for sale.